While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) Each of the March sister heroines had a harrowing experience that alerted her and the reader that "childhood innocence" was of the past, and that "the inescapable woman problem" was all that remained.
The term "little women" represented the period in a young woman's life where childhood and elder childhood were "overlapping" with young womanhood. One of her challenges is trying to control her anger, a challenge that her mother experiences. Meg is beautiful and traditional, Jo is a tomboy who writes Beth is a peacemaker and a pianist Amy is an artist who longs for elegance and fine society. Beth, too timid for school, is content to stay at home and help with housework Amy is still at school. Meg and Jo March, the elder two, have to work in order to support the family: Meg teaches a nearby family of four children Jo assists her aged great-aunt March, a wealthy widow living in a mansion, Plumfield. The women face their first Christmas without him. Having lost all his money, their father is acting as a pastor, miles from home, involved in the American Civil War. The family lives in a new neighborhood in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. The novel tells the story of four teenaged sisters and their mother, Marmee. Little Women is a semi-autobiographical account of Louisa May Alcott's childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts.
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